Bringing Back The Information Super Highway!
What is Protoweb?
Protoweb is a community-driven public service that hosts historical Internet websites to demonstrate the Internet in its early days. Its goal is to rebuild and restore early Internet services to offer a seamless browsing experience. It is a proxy server that can be accessed with many web browsers and hosts countless web sites with live weather, news, music, games, downloads, and more. Content is being curated and added daily.
Our service is in Public Beta, and is currently going through a substantial development phase as we build the tools and documentation to support the service, while concurrently working on our extensive library of classic web sites and resources.
Getting Started
All you need is an Internet capable computer that has a web browser with HTTP proxy support. Once you have done that, add one of our proxy servers to the web browser’s settings and you’re done. No registration needed! If you are running Windows, you can also download and install RetroZilla (Protoweb Edition) or the Protoweb Browser, which are both ready to go out-of-the-box with no configuration needed. Older computers can use a variety of classic browsers, many supported browsers have instructions how to setup in our quick start guide.
There are already many websites available on ProtoWeb. For full description and documentation, please visit our Getting Started guide.
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Get online
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Get a browser
& set it up
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Surf the web like
it's 1995!
Support our project
Protoweb provides free access to the service with no restrictions on it’s use. However, we do have monthly operating expenses that we must pay to maintain the service.Â
If you like what we are doing, please consider supporting our service with a donation.
Get in touch with us
Get support, talk about classic websites, report bugs, feature requests, or just hang out with like-minded people!
Click on the Facebook link below to open the Protoweb User Group, or Discord logo to chat live with us.